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Hurricane Marketing Hack: Build a Marketing Plan in 3 Hours Event

Join AAF Greater Fort Lauderdale and The Palm Beaches, Code For Fort Lauderdale and General Provisions for a special Marketing Plan Hack to build a marketing plan in 3 hours for the concept developed during the National Day of Civic Hacking. Did you have trouble finding supplies before and after Hurricane Irma? If yes, then let's build a marketing plan for the app ...READ MORE

AAF Greater Fort Lauderdale & The Palm Beaches presented its very first Agency Crawl on October 5, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. with more than 30+ attendees. Hosted by the O’Donnell Agency - one of the first agencies in the state to recognize and implement convergence of advertising, public relations and digital marketing services under one roof. READ MORE

AAF Announces 2017–2018 Board Leadership and Directors

The AAF has elected Kim Kelleher of Condé Nast as Chair; Amanda Richman of Starcom as Vice Chair; and appointed new leadership from Advertising Age, FOX Networks Group, gyro, Orcí and Publicis Media Exchange ... READ MORE

Fort Lauderdale, FL, June 04, 2017 --(PR.com)-- Seven agencies win District Addy Awards at the 2017 4th District AAF Addy Awards held on May 6 in Miami. Leading the way with four District Addy’s is Brand Tango - a branding, design and digital incubation agency located in South Florida. The agency known for its stellar design capabilities won in four different categories for the sales kit they produced for the Ritz-Carlton Reserve Residences. This entry is also the only entry from the local club that qualified for the National American Advertising Awards (ADDY) Awards to be held this June in New Orleans.

The American Advertising Awards is the industry’s largest and most representative competition for creative excellence. The three-tier national competition is conducted annually by the American Advertising Federation, the only one to represent the interests of all facets of advertising: advertisers, agencies, suppliers and media ... READ MORE ...

Carvalho brings more than 15 years of experience in media buying, new client onboarding and staff development to her role at O’Donnell, where she manages the agency’s award-winning advertising and design department. She started her career in New York with the Spanish International Network/Univision, and previously anchored top-flight ad agencies in South Florida and the venerable Saatchi and Saatchi in Bermuda ... ​READ MORE ...

WILTON MANORS, Fla. – Brand Tango took the Best of Show ADDY honors for its work for Grupo Questro–Ritz-Carlton Reserve Residences in the Greater Fort Lauderdale & The Palm Beaches American Advertising Awards ceremony on March 2, 2017. Nearly 100 advertising industry representatives attended this annual dinner and awards presentation.

The American Advertising Awards is the industry’s largest and most representative competition for creative excellence. The three-tier national competition is conducted annually by the American Advertising Federation, the only one to represent the interests of all facets of advertising: advertisers, agencies, suppliers and media. Of the 208 (185 professional and 23 student) entries received by the AAF Greater Fort Lauderdale & The Palm Beaches, 26 professionals and three students went home with gold ADDYS. Additionally, 67 professionals and 13 students were recognized with silver ADDY Awards. Entries were judged for their creativity, originality and strategy by a three-judge panel comprised of: Kevin Taylor, Associate Creative Director, 22 Squared; Sheri Kaufmann, Freelance Creative Director and Copywriter; and Karl Strauch, Vice President of Brand Development & Strategic Alliances, Tampa Port Authority ... READ MORE ...